Isabelle Vanderschelden is a former Senior Lecturer in French Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University who holds a PhD in Literary Translation evaluation (University of Manchester 1995). Her main areas of research include contemporary French cinema; film production; screenwriting; intercultural competence and film literacy. She has written extensively in French and in English in these fields.
Her publications include Screenwriters in French Cinema co-authored with Sarah Leahy (2021); Studying French Cinema (2013); Amelie (2007); France at the Flicks: Issues in Popular French Cinema (co-edited with Darren Waldron, 2007).

She is co-founder of FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association) and has co-edited with Carmen Herrero Using Film and Media in the Language Classroom: Reflections on Research-led Teaching (2019).